Johnathan Edwards Sinners in the hand of an Angry God is an inspiring sermon. He passionately narrates the fall of man and reinforces it with literary examples that the target audience at the time can easily relate to. His message is clear and concise and drives the point home. In this sermon, Edwards uses the narrative aim by describing the “anger” that God possesses toward “sinners”; sinners being the target audience he was preaching to. Before examining the examples he uses, one must first understand to who the sermon was directed.
“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” was a revival sermon written and preached by Jonathan Edwards. It draws up the three basic tenets of Puritanism which are original depravity, limited atonement, and predestination. Most Christians in today’s world do not quite agree with this view. Edwards preaches that it is only by the hand of God that people are not cast into hell giving the impression that anything a person may do to keep themselves out of hell is futile. His sermon was typical of the era and can be assumed to be quite effective.
Oscar Cruz Jr. Cruz 1 BG Guttierez ENGL 2327 23 February, 2012 Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God In the story Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God in holds a sermon on how your life should be led to with several techniques he tries to grab your attention with his grace and how you would go to heaven. Not everybody believes in god but in my point of view I believe that with the will of the lord everything is possible. Jonathan Edwards throughout the readings tried to scare the readers on how god can do things to people or grasp their life in any part of their time. It shouldn’t be understood in that way because in the bible I reads that god will come for you at the time he is ready. There is no need to be scared to go to heaven because heaven is a better and more peaceful place.
In the sermon of sinners in the hands of an Angry God by Jonathan Edwards tries to scare his listeners into believing in God and seeking salvation. He uses many literary devices to do this. The literary techniques he used to scare them were imagery, Symbolism, and also figurative language. He used all these techniques in his six-hour sermon in Enfield, Connecticut, in 1741. Jonathan Edwards spoke quietly and with no emotion.
Response to Article: On Being an Atheist Cassandra Craig PHIL 201 Liberty University Reading the article ‘On Being an Atheist’ by H. J. McCloskey, was an invaluable experience in considering the views of an atheist concerning his beliefs about God, the universe, evil and suffering. This is the kind of article that may assist people in avoiding what Socrates spoke of in earlier lessons in philosophy as an unexamined life. Even if a person doesn’t agree with McCloskey’s views, you are prompted to think about many issues, what you are doing, what you believe and why, also investing time reflecting on what life is all about. Considering that McCloskey most likely gave a lot of thought to the above issues, he was overall very narrow minded in the way he talked about theism, he implies that proofs for theism should be abandoned, and says the evil that is in the world is one of the main reasons; “It is because evil exists that we believe God does not exist” (McCloskey, 1968, p. 52). In view of the PointeCast presentation, theistic arguments determine the best explanation for and not proof of, God’s existence, while considering the complexity and cause of the universe; and morality.
While reading, there were many Christian values in the poem. A good example is when Beowulf is telling Hrothgar about his triumphs: “God must decide who will be given death’s / cold grips” (253-254). There was a lot of Christian influence throughout the poem, for instance when Grendel is fighting Beowulf in Herot: “Grendel now knew what it meant to feud with the Almighty God” (369-370). The quote above compares Beowulf’s strength to God which is a metaphor. The last example of a Christian belief in Beowulf I found was when Beowulf was fighting Grendel’s mother
Lewis and Joy both took the road to Atheism and then landed on the road to Christianity. In the book, A Grief Observed, Lewis compared the pain of death to being mildly drunk, or concussed. Lewis felt as though there was a blanket between him and the world. [6] He questioned, “Where is God?’ Although he questioned God and experienced another great loss, Lewis knew that he could not let his faith in God fade. He had to press on and look to God for his purpose in life and believe that God would strengthen him in his time of bereavement.
Everyman has turned his back on God and set his sights on things that are not deemed important at the time of reckoning. Death comes to order Everyman to his journey of reckoning, and Everyman wants to bring someone along. Now everyone else will begin to deceive Everyman. The second time we see deception in Everyman is when Everyman turns to his dearest friend, Fellowship for help. Fellowship sees Everyman troubled and informs them that he would be happy to help.
The poems next to of course god america i and Hawk Roosting share a number of themes however substantially differ in the way they are written. The poem next to of course god america i in my opinion is a transcript of almost a debate between two people and features the speech of two people. There is a strong political leader and patriot who is talking about his views on the subject of war however his speech has then been taken and paraphrased by the speaker who adds mockery and sarcasm to the speech. For example in lines 4 to half way through line five. It says tis of countries come and go and are no more what of it, this line implies that the patriot is very dramatic but then the speaker mocks the patriot by putting “what of it”.
They were told many things by preachers such as Jonathon Edwards, who lit a candle of fear in their minds. If I were alive to hear Edwards preach, I'd certainly have to question myself. He preached that God holds us in his hands and he can make or break us. If God decides it so, he will let us go and we will fall from his hands to nothing but Hell. Certainly no one wants to go to Hell.